Novation 61SL MkIII, MIDI and CV Equipped Keyboard Controller with 8 Track Sequencer
Novation SL MKIII is the centerpiece that can be used to control your whole studio, working perfectly alongside your DAW. Make working with your hardware easy and creatively rewarding, and construct your next production in the 8 track polyphonic sequencer, with everything staying in sync. Bring MIDI hardware and CV/gate synths together by plugging them all into SL MKIII, taking total control directly from the internal eight-track polyphonic pattern-based sequencer. Do you use a DAW and crave integrating your favorite hardware? Well, you can have the best of both worlds. Make controlling your software easy by recording productions from a studio centerpiece. We worked with Ableton to create an absolutely stunning keyboard controller for their live music-making software. The five color LCD screens give you full parameter feedback, enabling you to see everything you are controlling. Real time record or input notes per step. Play and edit your sequences directly from the keyboard. Record your movements as automation into the sequencer, bringing life to your production. Whether you’re in the box or outside the box, The midi and analogue clock and transport controls keep everything running in time. Choose an ARP type, set a sync rate, tweak the length, and then use the pads to design your rhythms in real time. Highly customizable mappings for hardware and software easily control everything. Create your own templates in the software editor, and save them to the keyboard. Work with scales and keys and set up multiple zones and layers on the keyboard. See everything instantly with vibrant on-key RGB LED feedback. Comprehensive connectivity: USB; MIDI in, out, out 2/thru; three pedal inputs; analogue clock out; and two CV pitch, gate, and Mod outputs can be used to route anything anywhere.
Product Features
- Bring MIDI hardware and CV/Gate synths together
- Easily integrate hardware with your DAW
- The perfect controller for Ableton Live music-making software
- Internal 8 track pattern based sequencer
- 1 routable clock for the whole system
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Great overall keyboard with tons of features. With that said… I did not own the keyboard for very long, and ultimately had to return it, due to keys randomly not registering in FL Studio. I’m not sure if this is a problem with FL Studio, my USB cable, or the keyboard itself, but when playing the keyboard with any sort of speed, there would be random keys that would not give any input within FL Studio. I thought this might be a problem with the velocity, but checking the velocity within FL Studio’s grand piano plugin, I was able to verify there was no…
No iOS Software Configuration Support for the Keyboard or iOS apps My review will be limited to addressing Novationâs lack of iOS support. To configure the keyboardâs setup you need to either download there app on your computer or configure it via a browser that supports web MIDI. These configurations allow you to control DAWs or instruments from your keyboard. This same configuration software is used to configure their synths (I have a Novation Bass Station II as well). There are several factory installed configurations for controlling computer based DAWs…